Monday, 29 June 2009

Immigration

I actually have a lot of time for Fraser Nelson. He is articulate and knows how to construct a case, which are things I never thought I'd associate with the News of the Screws.

And he's in fine form here, mocking our flaccid politicians for entirely failing to come to grips with what the BNP have found a good campaign tactic:

Westminster parties have kept their baffled silence and are giving the BNP a monopoly over the most explosive issue in politics.

You'd think Gordon Brown and David Cameron would have been shocked into action after seeing Griffin win a seat in Brussels.

Almost a MILLION voters chose the BNP. And make no mistake: we're not talking about a million racists.

Griffin never mentions his whites-only membership policy. He campaigns, simply, on controlling immigration.

In the recession, it's a bigger subject than ever because the layoffs are hitting British- born people hardest.

Strip out the public sector and do you know how many new jobs have gone to British workers since 1997?

Zero. Squat. Nada. In fact, there are fewer UK-born workers in the private sector than 12 years ago.

That last bit was particularly scary.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm actually all for uncontrolled immigration. What I'm not in favour of is uncontrolled benefits being dished out to uncontrolled immigrants. And I'm definitely not in favour of taxes on uncontrolled immigrants being used to fund a class of client state voters who do fuck all but endorse this rather astonishing state of affairs.

14 comments:

So you want to completely overcrowd Britain? Why can't Libertarians seem to realise that there are limits in terms of space and resources? Our economy is going to collapse and when it does we won't be able to afford food imports. I'll check back then and see how you're doing. I'll be in Thailand smugly drinking a G&T watching cannibalism take root in the UK.

And we get the "New Deal": where we get taxpayers to pay companies a "salary" for a person on benefits to work at that company, in order to allow them to keep their benefits, while chalking this up as "training". Simples.

The problem is the benefits system traps people. It is too costly and too risky to leave benefits to pick up a temporary job, because it takes weeks for the system to accept you back again, during which you're without money, risking eviction and bailiffs.The benefits system needs to move into the 21st century and make it easier for people to move off benefits and into work.

Immigrants work outside the system and don't care about minimum wages, live 20 to a house and have minimal housing costs. Even better to be an immigrant with no job, because you get support an d benefits thrown at you by your appointed interpreter.

We need to create a workforce as flexible as immigrants, but Labour has shrouded the job market in so much red tape and regulation, UK workers can't compete, even on their own soil.

But of course its in the Labour Government's interest to have a load of claimants shit scared of the Conservatives and their "Tory cuts".

Anon 14:48 I think the idea is that reform of welfare would control immigration. To be honest I don't think it would. Whilst one function of immigration is to keep out economic migrants, there are additional factors. For example keeping out rapists and murderers. Of course this function could be carried out internally but I would argue that it would be more effective if carried out at the borders.

In any event there is no one in Britain with the balls to carry out the kind of reforms that are needed to welfare so ultimately it is a moot point.

This comment shows that even proven hardcases like you haven´t really got a clue about what´s going on and what it´s going to take to put an end to it. Better hurry up and wake up because time is fast running out!

@JD: well, it's a kind of ideal world thing. If the world was libertarian then it wouldn't really matter. If the UK was libertarian and people were coming here for the libertarian lifestyle, then they would make the UK even more libertarian.

However, as things stand right now, I am violently opposed to more immigration, because people are coming in for the wrong reasons.